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One of the distinguished romantic
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actors of the Jewish stage, Samuel'
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In 1919, the literary circles of Ger- rade in the field who, thanks to a fate
to give a single performance But. lay
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many and Austria were treated to similar to mine, was in this camp, far
evening, June 8, in his greatest sage
something no delight fully novel, so removed front barb-wire entangle-
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author of the new hook at once be- nificent outdviors, I decided while it
an artist. The Jewish theater-gaisig
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came a bright star on the sky of let- was still night, to make the rounds
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deep,
woeful
sobbing.
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1 It was during the World Wnr that
havoc with your disposition, which is a most valuable
Bloch became notable as a writer. ro om. Softly, timidly, we entered.
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said that while Bloch is a
beloved studies which he had begun sh ould be
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Aid man , an expert Kabalist, a man MAN with lifetime experience is de-
in secular or "Western" learning, his lb oreughly versed in Jewish litera-
sirous of permanent position in
studies at the seminary having been to ry, as a soldier he was a terrible
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soon developed a special love for
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delving into the legendary and mys-
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sidim, and occasionally he would lb at he had to weep. Ile replied: '1
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was rudely interrupted by the out- ,parole room, so that I may pursue
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break of the World War. In 1914, I s , y studies off duty. My weepin g .
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Bloch was 73, married. and father herefore has nothing to do
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I of several children. Ile was slight, `
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almost anemic, with weak, near-sight- nilitary
service, but my nocturnal la-
Portraits of
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entations are over the destruction
Grocery Store. This is one of the most sanitary and up-to-date
ern; four bedrooms, two baths; ga-
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eel eyes. The first soldiers sent to : t our temple, and only the Pslams
Kosher Meat Markets in the city today. Another big feature is the
rage;
with
many
conveniences
not
the front were the flower of Ausria's ° hick I was reading moved me to
! manhood. Bloch, who hail been dis- w
usually furnished. Call Empire
delivery service which is maintained.
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qualified from serving in the army in
1470.
"At this answer my eyes filled with
his youth, was naturally not invited tears. But I played the role of Jo- ,,
to go to war. But something just as
toward his brothers, I slid not uood.Natured Satire and Mirth
bad had happened to him and to all seph
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make myself known to him. To my
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further
question, whether Jewish law
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—the Russian invasion. The Aus-
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was so unreasonable as to forbid the
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'the well being of its subjects in this
at hand,
region and, assuming that the Jewish kosher comestibles were not
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poulation would be shown no mercy Bloch stood erect like
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rat! Discipline!' But a fire glittered
removal of the Jews to the interior, a. n his eyes. lie explained his rank tering of the Bonatelle Company at
,
the Garrick next week, beginning
and Bloch, along with tens of thou- !
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According to the
Ebner H. Christ., President
sands of others, suddenly found ! n this fashion:
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sages,
David
Oppenheim,
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ales
laid
down
by
our
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. large!
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d
themselves in Vienna, an outpost of r
may, in any emergency, also eat
Western civilization.
trete, but I am attending school here. character play of both youth and mid-
repg
re sentin
exaggered
at
-ag
It was largely in order to secure • I am learning to keep discipline; dlee,
livelihood that Bloch began to con- therefore I would rather fast than types but filled to the bri m with ele-
tribute more voluminously to the eat trefa, because I have not the right meats of true mirth. The author
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Wochenscrift, which he was encour- to decide how great the emergency takes good-natured, witty and satiri-
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aged to do by the , publisher and must be to release me from the pro- cal "digs" at those American and
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is of the opinion that
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is
as
that scarcely anything was known of on, his friend and admirer.
ri
other winter of dirty,labo•
their quaint legends about wonder-
Some time after this I had occa- clean as Pittsburgh and as font as
Howl, uncertain heat lit fill-
working Jewish saints, their sparkling sion to pass through another bar- Philadelphia. The English are mar-
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humor and biting wit, it was natural racks in which Bloch had been or- malade hounds and titles are to be
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that Bloch should turn to disclosing dead to make his new 'domicile.'
Now while your coal bin Is
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was brightly lighted. Bloch was sit- American cousin and you are shown
you'll never have to fill It.
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But in 1915 Austria found that tine at an ink-stained table and was both sides of the question through the
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(About to leave for the front.)
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the present, he does not think that the
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am not the same as I was;
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he had leisure to pursue his literary Then, I knew only praying
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work and. what is more, he met Jew And now I stand at h
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the references to the law giver, have
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, from various parts of the world, from They wish to send me to kill human any connection with the Exodus' per-
whom he learned their local legend
in
beings.
si mew
iod .
and myths. Bloch's' position at thi
iI
Professor Flinders Petrie has treat -
camp was beautifully described in
i know not if mine is the guilt ;
ed of his discovery of the tablets in his
recent issue of Per Neuer Wiehe Must my hands with blood be stained? leek "Researches in Sinai."
Journal by the famous writer, D
Must nip mind on murder be bent?
Sander Varhely, who tells how h For this, God, did'st thou give
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came to know Bloch. "It was in May
strength to my limbs?
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1916," wrote Dr. Varhely. "I ha
III
left the Reserve Hospital at Soprow 0 God, is it Thy decree?
1
where I had been confined for severe Then do I Thy will without murmur;
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' months as the result of a wound sat Yet forgive a heart full of repentance ler of the Liverpool Schnol of Tropi-
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' fered in the field, and because i was And I go to my death unafraid!
on account of my lame foot, 'fit to
sistant in the Microbiological Insti-
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, garrison duty only,' was ordered to
"The diary contained unusually tute of the Ilebrew University. Dr.!
, war-prison camp in the Veszpreme splendid reflections on humanity and Adler has been for the last few years
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department. At that time, the cam Judaism. His words were prophecies engages] in research work at the Sir I
'already had many thousands of cap —I see them now as relaitiesd—and Alfred Jane Research Laboratory and
tives--men (now it may be told) cries of protest against the Godless- during this period has covered . wide
from all parts of Russia, Roumani ness of Europe. I ordered him to de- field of tropical medicine, chiefly in 1
and Italy—and among them wer stroy the diary at once; if it had parasitology. Dr. Adler, who is an
several thousand Jews.
fallen into the hands of a war-en- excellent Ilebraist, is leaving for l'al.
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, "Late in the evening, I arrived they thusiast, Bloch would have been estine soon. '
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in an automobile from Gyor. Silently haled before a court-martial and ac-
lay the foreign city, equipped with al cused of being an agitator, a traitor, an avid literary appetite for the
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"Bloch told me again and again morous quips of the Eastern Jews,
'heart of the Bakony Forest. Every
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tention!) would ring out, passing Divine Providence, and that all these rendering these into German. Thus
in
around the entire ramp and awaken things which we have lived through far, he has published two volumes
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ing loud echoes in the forest. One o are only the birth-pangs of a new this field, "Ost Judische Hum,
the soldiers' belonging to the guard a 'humanity. 1, the witness of his hun- "Ilerech Ostropoler," the latter be.
and his suffering, his deeds and ing accounts of the "monkey-shines"
NORTHWAY
ger
the
,gate
led
me
to
the
watch-tower
I
wag, Hirsch, a Jew of
4170
where I had to report to the officer on his works, wish from the bottom of of a famous
my heart that he may live to see the Ostropol. Bloch has also completed
a
dear
com
I
recognised
in
him
duty.
it !" y the manuscript of a collection of
birth o f this new h
uman
While in the trenches Bloch wrote legends contained in the iusbbalah, •
the book which made him famous. but the financial upheaval in Central
This was "Der Praguer Golem," the Europe has called a halt in the pub-
sSunaaro tponqoqs
simple stories of oppressed Jews of lishing of books for the time being. ' f
The distinguished author is now in
the medieval ghetto, about the won-
der-work of their holy rabbis who , this country, where he is seeking to
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